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On February 9, 474: Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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Featured moment · 474

Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Zeno was Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491. His reign was plagued by domestic revolts and religious dissension, but was more successful on the foreign front. He is credited with further stabilizing the Eastern empire, while the Western Roman Empire fell following the deposition of Romulus Augustulus.

People

Born on February 9

Ryan Williams 2007– American football player (born 2007)
Cooper DeJean 2003– American football player (born 2003)
Jalen Green 2002– American basketball player (born 2002)
Dylan Cozens 2001– Canadian ice hockey player (born 2001)
Cem Bölükbaşı 1998– Turkish racing driver (born 1998)
Isabella Gomez 1998– Colombian-American actress (born 1998)
Jaire Alexander 1997– American former football player (born 1997)
Saquon Barkley 1997– American football player (born 1997)
Valentini Grammatikopoulou 1997– Greek tennis player (born 1997)
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Jimmy Bennett 1996– American actor (born 1996)
Kelli Berglund 1996– American actress (born 1996)
Chungha 1996– South Korean singer (born 1996)
Sebastián Driussi 1996– Argentine footballer (born 1996)
André Burakovsky 1995– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1995)
Mario Pašalić 1995– Croatian footballer (born 1995)
Sheraldo Becker 1995– Surinamese footballer (born 1995)
Wataru Endō 1993– Japanese footballer (born 1993)
K. J. McDaniels 1993– American basketball player (born 1993)

People

Died on February 9

Tom Robbins American writer (1932–2025)
Johnny Raper Australian rugby league player and coach (1939–2022)
Chick Corea American musician and composer (1941–2021)
Reg E. Cathey American actor (1958–2018)
Jóhann Jóhannsson Icelandic musician and composer (1969–2018)
John Gavin American actor (1931–2018)
André Salvat French Army colonel (born 1920)
Sushil Koirala Prime Minister of Nepal from 2014 to 2015
Zdravko Tolimir Bosnian Serb military commander
Show 9 more — notable deaths on February 9
Liu Han Chinese mining tycoon, executed in February 2015
Ed Sabol American filmmaker and founder of NFL Films (1916–2015)
Gabriel Axel Danish film director, actor, writer and producer
Hal Herring American football player and coach (1924–2014)
Logan Scott-Bowden British Army general
Richard Artschwager American artist (1923–2013)
Keiko Fukuda Japanese-American martial artist (1913–2013)
Jimmy Smyth Irish hurler
O. P. Dutta Indian filmmaker and writer

Timeline

Every February 9 on record

  1. 474 Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.

    Eastern Roman emperor (474–475; 476–491)

    Zeno was Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491. His reign was plagued by domestic revolts and religious dissension, but was more successful on the foreign front. He is credited with further stabilizing the Eastern empire, while the Western Roman Empire fell following the deposition of Romulus Augustulus.

  2. 1003 Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.

    Duke of Bohemia (fl. 999–1003)

    Boleslaus III, called the Red or the Blind, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, was Duke of Bohemia from 999 until 1002 and briefly again during the year 1003. During his chaotic reign, Bohemia became a pawn in the long German–Polish War between King Henry II and Duke Bolesław I, "the Brave", of Poland.

  3. 1098 A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major battle against the Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch.

    1096–1099 Christian re-conquest of the Holy Land

    The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, which were initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the Middle Ages. Their aim was to return the Holy Land—which had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate in the 7th century—to Christian rule. By the 11th century, although Jerusalem had then been ruled by Muslims for hundreds of years, the practices of the Seljuk rulers in the region began to threaten local Christian populations, pilgrimages from the West and the Byzantine Empire itself.

  4. 1539 The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.

    Horse racing venue in England

    Chester Racecourse, also known as the Roodee, is a racecourse located in Chester, England. The horse racing venue is officially recognised by Guinness World Records as the "oldest racecourse still in operation". Horse racing in Chester started in the early sixteenth century, with 1539 cited as the year racing began, although some sources give a date of 1512 for the first races in Chester.

  5. 1555 Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

    Diocesan bishop in the Church of England

    The Bishop of Gloucester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Gloucester in the Province of Canterbury.

  6. 1621 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
  7. 1654 The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.
  8. 1775 American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
  9. 1778 Rhode Island becomes the fourth US state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
  10. 1822 Haiti attacks the newly established Dominican Republic on the other side of the island of Hispaniola.
  11. 1825 After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election.
  12. 1849 The new Roman Republic is declared.
  13. 1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama.
  14. 1870 US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
  15. 1889 US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
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  1. 1893 Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, premieres at La Scala, Milan.
  2. 1895 William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  3. 1900 The Davis Cup competition is established.
  4. 1904 Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
  5. 1907 The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
  6. 1913 A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
  7. 1920 Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
  8. 1922 Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
  9. 1929 Members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng assassinate the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
  10. 1932 Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.
  11. 1934 The Balkan Entente is formed between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.
  12. 1941 World War II: Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
  13. 1942 Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is reinstated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
  14. 1943 World War II: Pacific War: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
  15. 1945 World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.

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